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Cultural production and the morality of markets : popular music critics and the conversion of economic power into symbolic capital

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Varriale, Simone (2015) Cultural production and the morality of markets : popular music critics and the conversion of economic power into symbolic capital. Poetics : Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts, 51 . doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2015.03.002 ISSN 0304-422X.

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Abstract

This article examines the strategies through which cultural producers may convert their market success into a form of symbolic capital, that is, into a range of distinctive moral values and symbolic boundaries. This question is explored in relation to the rise of popular music criticism in Italy. Drawing on Bourdieu's field theory, this article reconstructs the field's historical genesis and examines the strategies of a heteronomous organisation (the music weekly Ciao 2001). In doing so, it counterbalances the focus of field studies on small scale cultural production, and argues that commercially-oriented producers may contribute to the broader legitimation of market imperatives. Further, this article argues that producers' position in the global cultural field is likely to shape their understanding of heteronomous forces, and thus the way they mobilise and convert different capitals. This article provides an empirical contribution to debates about the impact of market forces on cultural production, and to the growing scholarship on global cultural fields and cultural criticism. Theoretically, it argues that autonomy and heteronomy should not be addressed as mutually exclusive ideal-types, but as dispositions embedded in concrete practices and fields of relations, which may co-exist in the work of both avant-garde and large-scale cultural organisations.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General)
D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D839 Post-war History, 1945 on
D History General and Old World > DG Italy
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
M Music and Books on Music > M Music
N Fine Arts > NE Print media
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Music -- History and criticism, Culture
Journal or Publication Title: Poetics : Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0304-422X
Official Date: August 2015
Dates:
DateEvent
August 2015Published
15 April 2015Available
December 2014Accepted
Volume: 51
DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2015.03.002
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 28 December 2015
Date of first compliant Open Access: 15 April 2017
Funder: University of Warwick. Graduate School

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